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Why do you think husbands always disappoint their wives?

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Why do you always think husbands always disappoint their wives? Do you believe in the institution of marriage? Everyone is getting divorced, so why not just have fun and date w/o the marriage certificate? I think I'm done with the Latinos. They don't want to work hard, or at all, and want us to do everything for them! Es la verdad!!!

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updated DIC 21, 2011
edited by LAtINaPunKROcKerAConFundidA
posted by ruthieb
Please change your category to "general discussions" this is not a vocabulary or grammar question. - LAtINaPunKROcKerAConFundidA, OCT 17, 2009
I did it for you :) - LAtINaPunKROcKerAConFundidA, OCT 17, 2009

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There is actually much to be said in favor of "arranged marriages"

I agree - there is a lot. Freedom is hard choice. It's often about trial and error. With many errors. Yet for me that's what the miracle of life is about.

"Ship is safe at port. But it is not what the ships are built for."

updated OCT 19, 2009
posted by Behemoth
I like that last comment Behemoth - have a vote. - ian-hill, OCT 19, 2009
About "arranged marriages" - let the couple involved do the arranging. - ian-hill, OCT 19, 2009
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I think I'm done with the Latinos. They don't want to work hard, or at all, and want us to do everything for them! Es la verdad!!!

This is not too friendly comment, esa esa la verdad...but I am going to leave this on to hear other forers comment about this topic.

Ruth, this is a friendly forum, we do not attack others. Please read the rules.

I don't know, I think men are good guys, generally lazy though, I mean, they don't even know how to pack a suitcasewink, jeje, ask Joyce, Eddy's wife, they have been married for over 44 years, she will sure know what to say on this topic.

I think they don't mean Moe though, he has been married for 50 years .

Talking about not believing in the institution of marriage. wink

updated OCT 19, 2009
posted by 00494d19
If you think I'm letting Joyce loose to talk about me on this site, think again, hehe. - Eddy, OCT 18, 2009
Not knowing how to pack a suitcase is not a case of being lazy Heidita - ian-hill, OCT 18, 2009
A small correction. On Oct 17/09 we celebrated 50 years of knowing each other. Like Eddy, we we waited 2+1/2 years to get married. - Moe, OCT 18, 2009
Ii know some Latino men who are very hard working. My son's school is mostly Latino and I see some very involved fathers too - as many men as women are there to pick up there kids. Don't let your bad experience turn to racism. - kittybrougham, OCT 19, 2009
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Why do you always think husbands always disappoint their wives?

For the same reasons that wives always disappoint their husbands (although I would say "often" , rather than "always", in both cases). Somewhere around the 13th/14th century the idea of "romantic love" was invented (although it didn't become really widespread until Hollywood, Bollywood, etc. took up the cause).

In Darwininian terms, marriage is about "propagation of the species". In Judeo-Christian terms, "Be fruitful and multiply" (but, in either case, the message is "propagate those genes"). Successful propagation does not require that you like one another (much less love one another); only that you provide a stable economic/social unit that supports the survival of your offspring.

There is actually much to be said in favor of "arranged marriages" (which were common well into the 19th century {throughout Europe and America [and still are the norm in some places]) . The parents were knowledgeable about their children but not influenced by the "rampant hormonal impulses" of the latter.

updated OCT 18, 2009
posted by samdie
Note: The God of the Bible inspired Song of Solomon, quite the hot romantic love sonnet, in 953 BC. - Goyo, OCT 18, 2009
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I hope I don't disappoint my wife. She still seems to like me (I think loving someone is easy...liking someone is the hard thing to do), so I must be doing someting right! wink

updated OCT 18, 2009
posted by ChamacoMalo
Hi Charmar - I don't think one has any option - One loves or not and one likes or not - you can not "make" yourself do either. - ian-hill, OCT 18, 2009
I think love is a choice every day. Romantic love is easy. It is the love that sacrifices and thinks of the other person first that is hard. - Nicole-B, OCT 18, 2009
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